My Guidelines for Deepening Your Zen Practice
5/31/202634 min
For many years now, people have been asking me how to deepen their Zen practice. They wonder, "What's next?" Some lay people are perfectly content guiding their own practice, but others long for more structure – some kind of program to which they can apply themselves. I have long desired to meet such requests, but I wasn't clear how. After teaching Zen for over 15 years, I have developed a clearer sense of what to require of my students if they are asking me to personally guide their practice. I share my practice agreement for formal students here.
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[gentle piano music] Welcome to the Zen Studies Podcast. I'm Domyo Burk. Thanks to new supporting members of the podcast, as usual, Eladia from Boulder, Colorado, Tom from DeKalb, Illinois, and John from Flagstaff, Arizona. My members make this podcast possible. Bows of gratitude. For many years now, people have been asking me how to deepen their Zen practice. They wonder what's next. Some lay people are perfectly content guiding their own practice, but others long for more structure, some kind of program, if you will, to which they can apply themselves, and I've long desired to meet such requests, but I wasn't clear how. I knew what worked for me, but it's only after teaching Zen for over 15 years that I have a sense of what to require